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Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Get PDFThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Variations on the Author
Get PDF“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
Get PDFWe provide a number of new insights into the methodological discussion about author cocitation analysis. We first argue that the use of the Pearson correlation for measuring the similarity between authors’ cocitation profiles is not very satisfactory. We then discuss what kind of similarity measures may be used as an alternative to the Pearson correlation. We consider three similarity measures in particular. One is the well-known cosine. The other two similarity measures have not been used before in the bibliometric literature. Finally, we show by means of an example that our findings have a high practical relevance.information science;Pearson correlation;cosine;similarity measure;author cocitation analysis
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
Get PDFWe conducted a full-scale evaluative citation analysis study of scholars in the XML research field to explore just how different from each other author rankings resulting from different citation counting methods actually are, and to demonstrate the capability of emerging data and tools on the Web in supporting more realistic citation counting methods. Our results contest some common arguments for the continued
use of first-author citation counts in the evaluation of scholars, such as high correlations between author rankings by first-author citation counts and other citation
counting methods, and high costs of using more realistic citation counting methods that are not well-supported by the ISI databases. It is argued that increasingly available digital full text research papers make it possible for citation analysis studies to go beyond what the ISI databases have directly supported and to employ more
sophisticated methods
Erhebung 1987: Reduzierter Variablensatz mit sämtlichen Befragten
No full textThis series of surveys of all recruits of recruit schools in the years 1978, 1987 and 1996, made possible by the Commission for Educational Recruit Examinations, investigated in the first place selected aspects of the quality of life of the places of origin of the recruits interviewed: In 1978, 1987 and 1996, the almost 87,000 recruits who submitted usable questionnaires assessed the landscape, the townscape, shopping, work and leisure opportunities, job security, the level of taxes, the mentality of the population, public transport, economic development, etc. of the place where they had spent most of their youth. Furthermore, how much did recent developments - e.g. environmental pollution, new technologies, new buildings, crime - seem to have changed the image of Switzerland in general and that of its region of origin? The survey data were made available to a wider public in the form of generally understandable recruit portraits of the 26 cantons and 106 regions of Switzerland. On the other hand, they were evaluated in greater depth in the social sciences within the framework of several follow-up projects, among others, from the point of view of empirical regional and urban research.Diese Folge von Vollerhebungen unter allen Rekruten der Rekrutenschuljahrgänge 1978, 1987 und 1996, die von der Kommission für die Pädagogischen Rekrutenprüfungen ermöglicht wurde, untersuchte an erster Stelle ausgewählte Aspekte der Lebensqualität der Herkunftsorte der befragten Rekruten: Wie bewerteten die insgesamt annähernd 87 000 Rekruten, die auswertbare Fragebogen abgaben, in den Jahren 1978, 1987 und 1996 die landschaftliche Lage, das Ortsbild, die Einkaufs-, Arbeits- und Vergnügungsmöglichkeiten, die Sicherheit der Arbeitsplätze, Höhe der Steuern, Mentalität der Bevölkerung, den öffentlichen Verkehr, die wirtschaftliche Entwicklung usw. des Ortes, in dem sie den grössten Teil ihrer Jugend verbracht hatten? Wie stark schienen ihnen ferner neuere Entwicklungen - z.B. die Umweltbelastung, neue Technologien, neue Bauwerke, die Kriminalität - das Bild der Schweiz im allgemeinen und das ihrer Herkunftsgegend verändert zu haben? Die Umfragedaten wurden einerseits einer breiteren Öffentlichkeit in Form allgemeinverständlicher Rekrutenportraits der 26 Kantone und von 106 Regionen der Schweiz zur Verfügung gestellt. Sie wurden andererseits u.a. im Rahmen mehrerer Folgeprojekte unter Gesichtspunkten der empirischen Regional- und Stadtforschung sozialwissenschaftlich vertieft ausgewertet
Erhebung 1978: Reduzierter Variablensatz mit sämtlichen Befragten
No full textThis series of surveys of all recruits of recruit schools in the years 1978, 1987 and 1996, made possible by the Commission for Educational Recruit Examinations, investigated in the first place selected aspects of the quality of life of the places of origin of the recruits interviewed: In 1978, 1987 and 1996, the almost 87,000 recruits who submitted usable questionnaires assessed the landscape, the townscape, shopping, work and leisure opportunities, job security, the level of taxes, the mentality of the population, public transport, economic development, etc. of the place where they had spent most of their youth. Furthermore, how much did recent developments - e.g. environmental pollution, new technologies, new buildings, crime - seem to have changed the image of Switzerland in general and that of its region of origin? The survey data were made available to a wider public in the form of generally understandable recruit portraits of the 26 cantons and 106 regions of Switzerland. On the other hand, they were evaluated in greater depth in the social sciences within the framework of several follow-up projects, among others, from the point of view of empirical regional and urban research.Diese Folge von Vollerhebungen unter allen Rekruten der Rekrutenschuljahrgänge 1978, 1987 und 1996, die von der Kommission für die Pädagogischen Rekrutenprüfungen ermöglicht wurde, untersuchte an erster Stelle ausgewählte Aspekte der Lebensqualität der Herkunftsorte der befragten Rekruten: Wie bewerteten die insgesamt annähernd 87 000 Rekruten, die auswertbare Fragebogen abgaben, in den Jahren 1978, 1987 und 1996 die landschaftliche Lage, das Ortsbild, die Einkaufs-, Arbeits- und Vergnügungsmöglichkeiten, die Sicherheit der Arbeitsplätze, Höhe der Steuern, Mentalität der Bevölkerung, den öffentlichen Verkehr, die wirtschaftliche Entwicklung usw. des Ortes, in dem sie den grössten Teil ihrer Jugend verbracht hatten? Wie stark schienen ihnen ferner neuere Entwicklungen - z.B. die Umweltbelastung, neue Technologien, neue Bauwerke, die Kriminalität - das Bild der Schweiz im allgemeinen und das ihrer Herkunftsgegend verändert zu haben? Die Umfragedaten wurden einerseits einer breiteren Öffentlichkeit in Form allgemeinverständlicher Rekrutenportraits der 26 Kantone und von 106 Regionen der Schweiz zur Verfügung gestellt. Sie wurden andererseits u.a. im Rahmen mehrerer Folgeprojekte unter Gesichtspunkten der empirischen Regional- und Stadtforschung sozialwissenschaftlich vertieft ausgewertet
Faktor Mensch Formen angewandter Sozialforschung der Wirtschaft in Europa und den USA, 1890-1950
No full textEntwicklung der Lebensqualität in der Schweiz 1978 - 1987 ; Ergebnisse d. Rekrutenbefragungen 1987 u. 1978
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